RickK wrote:
See [[User:Mediator/ban]]. He's now making legal threats of libel against Jimbo Wales. I have banned his IP address, 142.177.78.145
Only 999,999 IPs to go! He'll keep coming back in the 142.177 range since he is on a dynamic IP (Sympatico.ca; Toronto POP). Range bans become temping in this case....
--mav
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Only 999,999 IPs to go! He'll keep coming back in the 142.177 range since he is on a dynamic IP (Sympatico.ca; Toronto POP). Range bans become temping in this case....
I have no objection to a temporary range ban in this case, if it becomes necessary. It's actually not 999,999, because there are only 256 alternatives per number. So it's 256*256 = 65,536.
What would be neat would be able to 'soft ban' certain ip number ranges in extreme cases. We've never had to do that (yet), but a 'soft ban' would mean that people can't edit from those ips unless logged in, and that new accounts on those ips would be flagged for monitoring, just in case.
--Jimbo